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Ms Rute C. Sofia

IIoT Competence Centre Head
fortiss GmbH
Participates in 4 items

Rute C. Sofia (PhD 2004) is the Industrial IoT Head at fortiss - research institute of the Free State of Bavaria for software intensive services and systems. She is also an Invited Associate Professor of University Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, and an Associate Researcher at ISTAR, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. Rute's research background has been developed on industrial and on academic context. She was a co-founder of the COPELABS research unit, and the COPELABS scientific director (2013-2017), where she was a Senior Researcher (2010-2019). She has co-founded the Portuguese startup Senception Lda (2013-2019), a startup focused on personal communication platforms.

Her current research interests are: network architectures and protocols; IoT; Edge computing; in-network computing; network mining. Rute holds over 60 peer-reviewed publications in her fields of expertise, and 9 patents. She is an ACM Europe Councilor (2021-2025); an ACM Senior member, an IEEE Senior Member. She was an IEEE ComSoc N2Women Awards co-chair (2020-2021).

Before fortiss, she was an Associate Professor (COPELABS/ULHT, wireless/user-centric networking; sensing; IoT); she co-lead as senior researcher the "Internet Architectures and Networking" area of UTM, INESC-TEC (07-10), focus on wireless/cellular network architectures and user-centric networking; she was (04-07) a senior research scientist in Siemens AG and Nokia-Siemens Networks GmbH, focusing on aspects such as: fixed-mobile convergence; carrier-grade Ethernet; QoS; IPv6 interoperability.

Rute holds a BEng in Informatics Engineering by Universidade de Coimbra (1995); M.Sc.(1999) and Ph.D. (2004) in Informatics by Universidade de Lisboa. During her PhD studies, she was a visiting scholar (2000-2003) at Northwestern University (ICAIR) and at University of Pennsylvania, MNLab, coordinated by Roch Guerin.

Rute holds a BEng in Informatics Engineering by Universidade de Coimbra (1995); M.Sc.(1999) and Ph.D. (2004, “Summa cum Laude”) in Informatics by Universidade de Lisboa. During her PhD studies, she was a visiting scholar (2000-2003) at Northwestern University (ICAIR) and at University of Pennsylvania.

Sessions in which Ms Rute C. Sofia participates

Tuesday 21 June, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT+01:00) Dublin
1:45 PM
1:45 PM
  • EU-IoT: The NGIoT Initiative
  • Croke Park Conference Centre - Suite 679/680
  • 1:45 PM - 4:30 PM  | 2 hours 45 minutes
  • The evolution of the IoT into the Next-generation IoT will be marked by a series of technological advances which inc...
  • Workshop
    Next Generation IoT: Emerging Technologies1. Next-Generation IoT, Research and Cross-Atlantic Cooperation

Wednesday 22 June, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT+01:00) Dublin
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
  • IIoT vehicle of vitamins and white blood cells for the healthy growth of the new chip industry market
  • Croke Park Conference Centre - Hogan Mezzanine 1
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM  | 1 hour 30 minutes
  • Considering European industrial market like a human body, IIoT could represent the ...
  • Panel
    Research Infrastructure: IoT new perspectives & breakthroughs for EuropeIndustrial IoT: Resilience and self-sufficiency of the 5.0 IndustryIoT and Edge Computing StandardisationData Protection, Ethics and Security in a connected world1. Next-Generation IoT, Research and Cross-Atlantic Cooperation2. IoT Markets and Applications in Industry, Agriculture & Smart Communities4. From Data Spaces to Data Legislation5. IoT Platforms and Standardisation
1:45 PM
1:45 PM

Thursday 23 June, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT+01:00) Dublin
1:45 PM
1:45 PM

Sessions in which Ms Rute C. Sofia attends

Monday 20 June, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT+01:00) Dublin